From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 18:31:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A133816A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:31:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F37843D55 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:31:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-160-246-51.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.246.51]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i97IUt2L071027 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 14:30:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <41658B5B.4010908@mac.com> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:30:51 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: piotr.smyrak@heron.pl References: <20041007011740.M26670@heron.pl> In-Reply-To: <20041007011740.M26670@heron.pl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.5 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pi.codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk geometry confussion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 18:31:00 -0000 piotr.smyrak@heron.pl wrote: > Please enlighten me. What way I should follow? First, make sure you've updated your machine to the most recent BIOS. Next, check the BIOS config about your disk drives, and if there exists an option to allow you to choose LBA mode rather than C/H/S, use LBA mode. NeXT, try using MS-DOS fdisk to create a small DOS partition. The re-run the FreeBSD installation, which now ought to see the partition table as your system wants it. Don't try to re-enter the partition table info yourself unless you know exactly what you are doing. If this doesn't work, provide more details (which version of FreeBSD, what you computer hardware is, and what your partition table looks like). -- -Chuck